1975 Palanca Awards
The 25th Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature was held to commemorate the memory of Don Carlos Palanca Sr. through an endeavor that would promote education and culture in the country.
LIST OF WINNERS
The 1975 winners were divided into six categories, open only to English and Filipino short story, poetry, and one-act play:
English Division
Short Story
- First Prize: Alfred A. Yuson, “Romance and Faith in Mount Banahaw”
- Second Prize: Jose Y. Dalisay Jr., “Agcalan Point”
- Third Prize: Benjamin Bautista and Linda Ledesma, “A Summer Goodbye”
Poetry
- First Prize: Cirilo F. Bautista, “Telex Moon”
- Second Prize: Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez, “Adarna: Six Poems from a Larger Corpus”
- Third Prize: Ricaredo Demetillo, “The City and the Thread of Life”
One-Act Play
- First Prize: Rolando S. Tinio, “A Life in the Slums”
- Second Prize: Paul Stephen Lim, “Password”
- Third Prize: Maidan T. Flores, “The Minerva Foundation”
Filipino Division
Maikling Kwento
- First Prize: Jose Reyes Munsayac, “Ang Oktubre ay Buwan ng mga Talahib”
- Second Prize: Ave Perez Jacob, "Guwardiya"
- Third Prize: Jun Cruz Reyes, “Mula Kay Tandang Iskong Basahan”
Tula
- Special Prizes:
Dulang May Isang Yugto
- Special Prizes: